Of all the ancient mysteries people cling to like life rafts in a sea of mediocrity, none is more stubbornly buoyant than the lost civilization of Atlantis. If you believe the breathless podcasts and badly animated documentaries, was technologically superior, spiritually enlightened, and somehow still forgot how to build boats that could float. The legend, … Read more
There are cryptids you can almost respect. Bigfoot, for example — majestic, mysterious, blurry in every photo like he’s permanently on the run from copyright infringement. The Yeti, Bigfoot’s more sophisticated older brother. Even the Chupacabra, Mexico’s favorite demonic desert creature. But then there’s the Jersey Devil, whose mythology pales in comparison to its cryptid … Read more
If childhood was full of invisible companions helping you navigate playground politics, adulthood offers spirit guides — invisible companions who apparently help you navigate life, taxes, bad Tinder dates, and questionable decisions made after two glasses of box wine. Spirit guides are described as angels, ancestors, totem animals, or “light beings,” standing ready to offer … Read more
Bigfoot is the participation trophy of the paranormal world. You can’t prove he’s there, you can’t prove he’s not, and somehow that’s enough for a certain breed of sweaty enthusiast to slap a sticker on their pickup truck and call it a lifestyle. Every few months some blurry photo crawls out of the forest like … Read more
There’s something uniquely humbling about realizing that in an age where we can send robots to Mars, track hurricanes from space, map the molecular structure of proteins, and bounce lasers off retroreflectors on the Moon, there are still people — allegedly literate, allegedly breathing without assistance — who believe Earth is shaped like a cosmic … Read more